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Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the greatest economist of my time. His greatest works can be accessed here at no charge.

Mises believed that property, freedom and peace are and should be the hallmarks of a satisfying and prosperous society. I agree. Mises proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the prospect for general and individual prosperity is maximized, indeed, is only possible, if the principle of private property reigns supreme. What's yours is yours. What's mine is mine. When the line between yours and mine is smudged, the door to conflict opens. Without freedom (individual liberty of action) the principle of private property is neutered and the free market, which is the child of property and freedom and the mother of prosperity and satisfaction, cannot exist. Peace is the goal of a prosperous and satisfying society of free individuals, not peace which is purchased by submission to the enemies of property and freedom, but peace which results from the unyielding defense of these principles against all who challenge them.

In this blog I measure American society against the metrics of property, freedom and peace.
Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pelosi. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Venting Some Pent Up Frustrations!!!!!!

REGARDING HIS TWO-TERM PRESIDENCY, Bill Clinton tells David Feherty: "I loved it. I loved every day of it. It’s a good thing we had a two-term limit — I’d have made them vote me out or take me out in a pine box." This is the difference between a modern progressive and a patriot and founding father of yesteryear. George Washington did have the opportunity to serve as President for life, but he intentionally stepped down after two terms. Washington wanted to drive home the point that ours is not a regal Presidency. Washington was a farmer and businessman. In short, he had a life!! He understood the importance of keeping his day job. He knew professional politicians would become arrogant and full of themselves. Bill Clinton, FDR and Maximum Leader Obama are everything George Washington was not. They think they know what's best for individual Americans. Washington knew this country was founded so individual Americans could decide for themselves what's in their own best interests. (via Weasel Zippers)


MAXIMUM LEADER OBAMA LIES ONCE AGAIN when he tells America at a news conference:
I’d just recommend that everybody take a look at people’s previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden. I assume that people meant what they said when they said it — that’s been at least my practice.
That's rich, Maxie. You want us to believe that you meant everything you said when you were running for President in 2008? That your Presidency won't be business as usual? That the health care debate will be on C-Span? That you'll keep lobbyists out of your administration? That you'll balance the budget by 2012? That kind of stuff? What a batch of vainglorious BS! God, I sure to hope Mitt Romney's ad people are paying attention. (via Weasel Zippers) 


SPEAKING OF LIARS, NANCY PELOSI WAS CAUGHT RED-TONGUED by "former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez." Pelosi vehemently insisted a while ago that she was never briefed by the Bush administration about its policy of waterboarding inmates at Gitmo. Then, later, she doubled down saying that she was told waterboarding was not being used. The Washington Post reports that Rodriguez proves Pelosi is a bald-faced liar in his new book, "Hard Measures:"
...Rodriguez reveals that he led a CIA briefing of Pelosi, where the techniques being used in the interrogation of senior al-Qaeda facilitator Abu Zubaida were described in detail. Her claim that she was not told about waterboarding at that briefing, he writes, “is untrue.”

“We explained that as a result of the techniques, Abu Zubaydah was compliant and providing good intelligence. We made crystal clear that authorized techniques, including waterboarding, had by then been used on Zubaydah.” Rodriguez writes that he told Pelosi everything, adding, “We held back nothing.”
I heard Rodriguez interviewed on the radio today by Sean Hannity and Rodriguez repeated his allegations about Pelosi, adding that he has written records to prove he is telling the truth. (via Weasel Zippers)


LOOK SHARP! MAXIMUM LEADER IS GOING TO ADDRESS THE NATION TONIGHT and, apparently, tell us again just how wonderfully decisive and gutsy he was in ordering the Navy Seals to off Bin Laden and bury him at sea! If you want the real story about how Bin Laden went down, read "Manhunt," by Peter Bergen. He appeared on Laura Ingraham's radio show today and basically said Obama's role was small. The operation was conducted by a couple of generals, one in the situation room and another in Southwest Asia. As you will recall Maximum Leader Bush wore a flight suit and gloated in front of a bill board-sized "mission accomplished" banner on an aircraft carrier. I wonder if tonight on TV Maximum Leader Obama will don camo fatigues and face paint with his halo superimposed on a blimp flashing the message: "Huh rah!" (via Weasel Zippers)

SPEAKING OF MAXIMUM LEADERS OBAMA AND BUSH, they seem to have a mighty close relationship since Obama is constantly giving Bush credit for everything that's gone wrong during the Barack Obama four-year tour in parasite D.C. Any bets Obama doesn't give Bush any credit tonight on TV for all the information gathered and all the counter-terrorism military mechanisms set up by the Bush administration? Hell, he probably won't even mention the Navy Seals. The Seals have been on his case lately, saying that the President's decision to nail Osama was a "no brainer." Obama certainly won't give any credit to Jose Rodriguez who told Hannity Monday that Obama wouldn't have been able to pull off the Osama killing if it weren't for waterboarding that Obama disapproves of.

I WATCHED A PROGRAM LAST NIGHT ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL that described the July 20, 1944 attempt by German officers to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Code named "Valkyrie," the plot failed. The program outlined the bloodbath that followed, as Hitler massacred hundreds of plotters. What I found more relevant to our day and age was the Nazi treatment of the Jews. For several years the Nazi propaganda machine slammed the Jews day and night, alleging that they were the reason for Germany's hard times. As we all known, making the Jews the scapegoat for all of Germany's economic and foreign policy problems worked too well. The propaganda was orchestrated by the top German Maximum Leader and his trusted Mini-Leaders, like Goebbels. The propaganda and scapegoating reminded me of what the left and Maximum Leader Obama are doing to America's most successful citizens, the 1%. I'm just saying...

LASTLY, TO ALL THE MAY 1ST OCCUPY WALL STREETERS who are clogging up America's streets, creating mayhem, setting fires, breaking store windows and calling for revolution. All I can say is: "Bring it on, morons!"

Friday, March 23, 2012

The Wages Of Sin

Over at Political Realities LD Jackson has posted an excellent essay: "Barack Obama – Dishonesty In Cushing."

Jackson describes Maximum Leader Obama's recent campaign stop in Cushing, Oklahoma:
I'm not sure if I have ever seen such a blatant and dishonest attempt by any politician to spin the facts and weave a web of lies around the truth."
LD is too much the gentleman to say it plainly. I've never been accused of being a gentleman, so I'll say it: Barack Obama is a bald-faced liar.

This is not news, of course. Anyone who follows the Drudge Report or Weasel Zippers or Fox News is exposed to a daily barrage of lies dripping from the flapping lips of Maximum Leader and his cronies. Naturally, leftists will say these news sources are tainted with the bias of conservative hatred and dissembling, which is itself a lie.

The point is lying has become the modus operandi of Maximum Leader and his administration. Why? It's due to a variety of moral hazard perpetrated by the mainstream media. If those charged with reporting the news fail to report lies, it becomes that much easier for liars to tell lies. They are enabled to lie with impunity.

The Bible tells us that "the wages of sin is death..." In this case it is not the officious liar who will suffer death, i.e., the loss of eternal life, but our society.

Here's a case in point, reported again by the nefarious evil-doers at Weasel Zippers and CNS News, "Pelosi: Obamacare Allows You to Quit Your Job and Become 'Whatever:'"
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Obamacare facilitates the type of “liberation” that the “Founders had in mind” because it allows you to quit your job and become a “photographer,”  a “writer,” a “musician”--or “whatever.”
Of course, Pelosi's statement is a blatant lie. Don't get me wrong. Obamacare does allow Americans to "quit" their job, do "whatever" and still get health insurance and health care, at the expense of the rest of us slobs who remain working and paying taxes. Pelosi's lie is that this type of welfare statism is what the "Founders had in mind."

If pressed by the media, Pelosi couldn't produce a single word from a single Founder who endorsed this type of "liberation." But Pelosi's lie will never be challenged by a member of the mainstream press. However, that same press will see to it that Pelosi's lie is broadcast to every nook and cranny of the country multiple times.

At her press conference Pelosi added that under ObamaCare: "You won’t have to be job locked." Again, this is not a lie per se. It seems the goal of every piece of legislation that issues forth from Obama and Pelosi is meant to free Americans from the hell of being "job locked," meant to allow them the freedom to do "whatever" and still eat well and live well...at the expense of others. This last part is the part the media and Pelosi and Maximum Leader never emphasize. It is their lie of omission.

To be fair, Maximum Leader and company have been truthful about their intention to soak the 1% of super-rich Americans with new taxes to pay for their job unlocking schemes. The lie is that the numbers don't add up. Confiscate all the wealth of the evil one or two or three percent and you come up short a few trillion dollars!

No matter. What's the harm of another unreported and unexposed lie here and there? The wages of this sin is hardly the death of society.

Wait. The death comes later, when those who believe the lies cast their votes for Maximum Leader and company, when those eager constituents demand that this newly elected, wondrous group of liars actually reproduce the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

Nancy Pelosi articulated the lie better than anyone. She said that ObamaCare incorporates...
"a cap on your costs, but no cap on your benefit."
Don't laugh, you Doubting Thomases. It's essentially what Christ said at the sermon on the mount, isn't it? A cap on your tithes, but no cap on the free fish and bakery?

We all know the Founders said basically the same thing at Independence Hall a couple of hundred years ago when they were founding this great nation: A cap on your job-locked, pioneering misery, but no cap on the neat stuff your new government can extort from your rich bastard neighbors.   

What a great country! What could possibly go wrong?